Quotes About Compromise

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." ~Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Oh, come, darling,' Guy protested, 'I didn't want to marry Sophie, but one has to be polite.

Adults are thoroughly schooled in this way of seeing, which makes it quite easy for them to empathize with others. Each teardrop is a source of pride. Young people, it's true, will also sometimes indulge in this kind of trivial emotionality. But if adults acquire this ability only after making compromises with their lives, to put it generously, where do young people pick it up? From junk novels like this one?

Je pensais : « Ce n'est que pour m'amuser, je ne le prends que comme partenaire de plaisirs. » D'ordinaire, je le méprisais ; quelquefois je me sentais honteux de me promener dans sa compagnie. Pourtant, c'est par cet homme que me vie fut brisée.

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Politics is the art of the possible.

Politics is an inexact science.

Politics is not an exact science.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Politics is the art of the possible. (originally, "Die Politik ist die Lehre von Möglichen.")

Politics is no exact science.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Commitment is easy before a relationship requires compromise and obligation.

Where's the give and take there? That's not a marriage. That's a male version of heaven.

I promise not to kiss you again. However, if you kiss me first, I will kiss you back. I think that's only fair, don't you?

It is in the common good to hold our political differences and the conflicts they create in a way that does not unravel the civic community on which democracy depends. My

Anything's possible in politics.

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience.

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience. Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes.

I reflected that had he married for attraction alone he could have had me. Had he married for money alone, he could have had Miss Vincy. Instead he had chosen a compromise between the two and had ended up with Miss Charity Winthrop. I did not think he could have done worse for himself if he'd tried.

She gave Samuel a stern look. "Now, I don't know what's going on between you and my daughter and Adam Hauptman—" "Neither do we," I muttered. Samuel grinned. "We have it pretty well worked out as far as the sex goes—Adam gets it—someday—and I don't. But the rest is still up for negotiation." "Samuel Cornick," I sputtered in disbelief. "That is my mother .